Article July 18, 1925 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from John R. Mott, Canon A. P. Shatford, Perry Martin, Thomas Curtis Clark

[From the Christian Century, Chicago, Illinois, April 16, 1925]

A blind girl, Miss Ida M. Sears, of Milton, Massachusetts, has won the prize offered by the Boston Federation of Churches for an essay on "Why Come to Church?" Miss Sears expressed her reasons for church-going in this fashion: "Why come to church? Because I need its ministrations; for it stands for the invisible things, the eternal realities, as opposed to the world of time and sense. I need to be reminded of my relations and duties to God and man, and to Jesus Christ, the great Exemplar. I come to find food for my soul and rest for my mind and body; for human fellowship and sympathy; where there is that love for one another which is the test of true discipleship. I come because I love the church and all it stands for. Why come to church? Because the church needs my presence, my influence, my help to sustain and carry on public worship, its various activities in . . . the community, and in cooperation with others to do my part in bringing in the kingdom of God in the world."

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